6 November 2018

How the Giggle Doctors helped Jamie-Lee

“My oldest son, Jamie-Lee has a condition called Marfan syndrome. It is a connective tissue disorder and he needed open heart surgery. He was in ICU for 2 days and then went on to HDU. He then had 24 hours on the wards but had to go back into HDU. One day, whilst on HDU, I was talking to a member of staff when a Giggle Doctor came through. It was Dr Nic Nac. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was ‘washing her egg’. Then she came over to my son and started talking to his teddy. She got some balloons out and blew them up and drew all over them. It was the first time since his operation I had seen him laugh. I’ve never seen something so funny. It was absolutely hilarious.

The hardest thing about being in hospital 13for long periods of time is the boredom. Jamie-Lee was there for about three weeks but he had nothing to do. Although he had his phone and could play he just wanted to go home to his own bed. He was so fed up in there. The Giggle Doctors just brightened up his day.  It was a new face that wasn’t a nurse or a doctor. Dr Nic Nac wasn’t prodding or poking. She just did silly things like blowing up balloons. She brightened up my day too. I think I would have gone stir crazy otherwise.

After Dr Nic Nac’s visit, Jamie-Lee was in really high spirits. The minute he got out of HDU the second time, he just wanted to go home and I think Dr Nic Nac just gave him a boost of ‘I can do this, I know I can and I will be home soon’. It gave him the boost to carry on fighting. He got home within about a week which was good.

The Giggle Doctors are just brilliant”.

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